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ELEGANT EPISTLES.

BOOK THE FIFTH.

Middle of the last Century.

PART I.

LETTER I.

FROM MRS. ELIZABETH MONTAGU✶ TO THE DUCHESS OF PORTLAND.

MADAM,

Hatch, 11, 1788.

YOUR grace's very entertaining letter was sent to me at sir Wyndham Knatchbull's, where I have been about three weeks, and propose returning to Mount Morris in a few days. I am as angry as I dare be with your grace, that you did not send any account of those charming fire-works, which I fancy were the prettiest things imaginable. I very

Mrs. Montagu lived to see nearly the close of the century, but we have thought proper to place her letters here, as best corresponding with their date.

VOL. V.

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